by Adre's IT | 31 July, 2021 | acorns, Adre's IT Blog, Apple, Apps, data protection law, deepfakes, kids, Location, Media, Mobile, TC, this week in apps, tiktok
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer...
by Adre's IT | 29 July, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, Amazon, consumer electronics, Fire TV Stick, Hardware, Joel Neidig, Media, microphone, roku, SMS, telework, usb, video conference, wi-fi, zoom
Late last year, Amazon launched support for two-way calling that worked with its Fire TV Cube devices. The feature allowed consumers to make and receive calls from their connected TV to any other Alexa device with a screen. Today, the company is expanding this system...
by Adre's IT | 28 July, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, Apps, BlueJeans, contacts tracing, Earnings, Face recognition, Fandango, fig, Media, Mobile, mobile browser, Model 3, Priti Youssef Choksi, Startups, TC, Tipping
Twitter’s recent acquisition spree continues today as the company announces it has acqui-hired the team from news aggregator and summary app Brief. The startup from former Google engineers launched last year to offer a subscription-based news summary app that...
by Adre's IT | 28 July, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, Android TV, Apps, cable TV, diversity in tech, kids, Media, Mobile, smart tv, TC
Following last fall’s debut of Google TV, the new user interface for Chromecast devices, Google is today giving its Google TV companion app for Android a makeover. The updated version of the mobile app for Google TV includes an updated user interface, expanded...
by Adre's IT | 27 July, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, Apple, Apps, counterfeit, extra crunch EC-1, Football, Media, Microsoft Build, nbc sports, peacock, United States
It’s hard to keep up with the Olympics any year, let alone when they’re taking place in a time zone that’s 13 hours ahead of you (if you’re on the U.S. East Coast). Apple News on Monday announced a collaboration with NBCUniversal (the U.S....
by Adre's IT | 23 July, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, AI, Apps, artificial intelligence, Careship, crewed spaceflight, Emerging-Technologies, Funding, Fundings & Exits, gig workers, Media, Mobile, ORIX, Recent Funding, sleep tracking, SOC, Startups, Superset, VOCHI, waymo driver
VOCHI, a Belarus-based startup behind a clever computer vision-based video editing app used by online creators, has raised an additional $2.4 million in a “late-seed” round that follows the company’s initial $1.5 million round led by Ukraine-based...
